Event Date: 28 February 2013 Room B01 Clore Management Centre Birkbeck, University of London Torrington Square London WC1E 7HX The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities presents: Slavoj Zizek – A reply to my critics Although most of the critiques to which my work was exposed in the last years are “so-called” fast denunciations not worthy of a serious reply, some …

Event Dates: 26 – 28 February 2013 University of Westminster 35 Marylebone Road London NW1 5LS and 115 New Cavendish Street London W1W 6UW Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Environment (SCIBE) presents: Within the Limits of Scarcity: Rethinking Space, City and Practices SCIBE PhD Conference 2013 Scarcity …

Event Date: 21 February 2013 Lecture Theatre E002, Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, London N1C 4AA The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) and the London Graduate School in collaboration with Art and Philosophy at Central Saint Martins present: Professor Étienne Balibar (CRMEP) – A Thought of/from the Outside: Foucault’s Uses of Blanchot A well-known essay published by …

Event Date: 15-16 February 2013 Deighton Room, Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ Translating Diplomatic Culture Part of the Diplomatic Cultures Research Network (AH/J013900/1) Exploring the broad themes of this research network, the first workshop will focus on questions of how diplomacy is imagined and practiced differently across a range of times and …

Event Date: 18 February 2013 Room 22/26 Senate House University of London London WC1E 7HU The Aristotelian Society presents: Professor John Carriero (UCLA) – Epistemology Past and Present John Carriero is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of Between two Worlds: a Reading of Descartes’s “Meditations” (2009) and co-editor with Janet Broughton of …

Event Date: 14 February 2013 Room 243 Senate House University of London London WC1E 7HU The Institute of Philosophy presents: Professor Salvador Soto Faraco (ICREA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) – Multisensory integration under the yoke of attention The beneficial consequences of perceiving and integrating information across different sensory systems have been profusely described in recent literature. For example, we often find …

Event Date: 12 February 2013 Room 421 Birkbeck Main Building Birkbeck University of London Malet St London WC1E 7Hx The Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism presents: Literature, Immigration and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act Round-table discussion with Professor David Glover (Southampton), Professor Sonya Rose (Birkbeck) and Professor …

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